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Wisconsin was a Massachusetts man. The minister to 

 Turkey in the same year was a descendant of a Massachu- 

 setts man. When I went to China, I found a Massachusetts 

 man representing our nation there. In all the countries I 

 have visited in my life there have come up Massachusetts 

 men managing all sorts of affairs, from the taking the cus- 

 toms at the ports to the regency of a national university, 

 as was the case in Japan. As philosophers, poets, states- 

 men, founders of new nations and new governments, that 

 larger Massachusetts is so great that it is impossible for us 

 to estimate it. 



I went to the city of Grand Rapids, where I had occasion 

 to visit their great factories. I found that one was owned 

 by a man in Boston, one in Worcester, another in Spring- 

 field, one in Holyoke, another in Pittsfield. The great city, 

 with all its enterprise, was very largely owned by Massa- 

 chusetts men, and they are sending their interest money in 

 a great tide this way. Grand Rapids is but a representa- 

 tive of a great many of the great cities of the United States. 

 A very amusing thing, to me, happened at Charlotte, 

 N. C, two weeks ago. I was sitting in a hotel, and two 

 southern men came in. Their southern accent was so broad 

 that it was very interesting to hear them talk. After 

 listening a little while, I was surprised to hear one say, 

 " Well, we are carrying out our plans over in the Philip- 

 pines, and this nation is getting to be a great nation." 

 Then he took a paper out of his pocket which told what 

 "the Yankees" were doing. I wondered how he would 

 like that name. You know it is not many years since the 

 southerners did not like that. I asked, " What Yankees 

 are they?" And he answered cheerfully, "We are all 

 Yankees now ; the whole^ country is Yankee now." 



The northerner has gone to the south and the west, and 

 we are all proud to say we are all Yankees now. All 

 through the south they are Yankees now ; you cannot tell 

 any difference between them. For this I am very thankful. 

 You look back to the source from which these men come. 

 How are great men made? They are made by the air. 

 You cannot make great men in a smoky atmosphere, where 

 contagion dwells. You must make them in the pure air, 



